Comments on: Considering Public Archaeology in the Long Run: Capacity Building, Sustainability, and (sometimes) Closing Things Down http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2011/12/considering-public-archaeology-in-the-long-run-capacity-building-sustainability-and-sometimes-closing-things-down/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=considering-public-archaeology-in-the-long-run-capacity-building-sustainability-and-sometimes-closing-things-down Society for Historical Archaeology Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Terry Brock http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2011/12/considering-public-archaeology-in-the-long-run-capacity-building-sustainability-and-sometimes-closing-things-down/#comment-7 Terry Brock Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=184#comment-7 Thanks for this important article, Carol. You raise a really important question that is rarely addressed, until it is "too late". I think that this is the type of question that should be brought up at the front end of a project, before the archaeologist and the community decide to work together, and while the parameters of that arrangement are worked out. Defining the "end" of the project ahead of time, or establishing what the relationship will look like after the excavations are done, may help to avoid some of these issues.  Thanks for this important article, Carol. You raise a really important question that is rarely addressed, until it is “too late”. I think that this is the type of question that should be brought up at the front end of a project, before the archaeologist and the community decide to work together, and while the parameters of that arrangement are worked out. Defining the “end” of the project ahead of time, or establishing what the relationship will look like after the excavations are done, may help to avoid some of these issues. 

]]> By: Reachnayton http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2011/12/considering-public-archaeology-in-the-long-run-capacity-building-sustainability-and-sometimes-closing-things-down/#comment-4 Reachnayton Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:57:00 +0000 http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=184#comment-4 This is an interesting post and an interesting question which I am currently trying to deal with, but at the beginning of a project not at the end of it. I have an abandoned townsite and a community with fierce ties to it but no expertise or funding to look after it or use it as a tourist asset as they wish too. I also have a town council well aware that they don't have a large rate base and such a site badly managed can become a burden to its community rather than an asset. I have just written a conservation plan for the townsite in which therefore I had to consider not only what was possible for the townsite in the way of conservation and interpretation but how the community could fund and manage conservation, interpretation and tourism in the long term. This is an interesting post and an interesting question which I am currently trying to deal with, but at the beginning of a project not at the end of it.

I have an abandoned townsite and a community with fierce ties to it but no expertise or funding to look after it or use it as a tourist asset as they wish too. I also have a town council well aware that they don’t have a large rate base and such a site badly managed can become a burden to its community rather than an asset.

I have just written a conservation plan for the townsite in which therefore I had to consider not only what was possible for the townsite in the way of conservation and interpretation but how the community could fund and manage conservation, interpretation and tourism in the long term.

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